Back to our best?

After a week of speculation about Chelsea’s new signings and Jose’s conflict with the Board and his exit from Chelsea, we are finally back to Premiership football. The good news is that some key players are back in our squad - Drogba, Sheva, Carvalho and Robben. So, in this match, we do have one central defender who might pair up with Paulo.

I have a feeling that Jose’s comments about the Board and his future are all just his gimmicks to keep the Press away from Chelsea’s dropping of points and the stars that are not shining enough. It is always Jose’s tactics that he draws the Press away from his players to keep the pressure off them. Has the Press been talking about Sheva or Ballack or Hilario for the last couple of weeks? They seems to have forgotten about it for a while. It’s all about Jose moving to Inter and Guus Hiddink getting ready for Chelsea . . .

After the Wigan match I would post in this blog, the complete message by Jose to the Chelsea fans. We can have another round of reading between his smart lines.

Coming back to today’s match, I hope Jose matches the playing eleven I have drawn up. The only problem here is that, if nothing seems to happen, we cannot bring in an impact player from the bench. We have an out-of-form SWP, inexperienced Sahar, a just-fit Cudicini, not-so-confident Kalou and may be a lack-lustre Maka. This shows that we need to somehow win the match in the first hour.

Lampard says the team know exactly what to do this Saturday:

We are very determined to win this weekend, to put an end to three draws in the league. Three draws is not good enough to win us the championship again. This is a good chance to do that. It’s a home game. Wigan are a strong team, we found that out a few weeks ago but no excuses, we need to win.

With the available team today, we should be able to control the game and knock Wigan out of the game, especially considering that Wigan is also missing some key players including their captain. The most key things today would be that Essien and Lampard should take the effective roles in the formation as the centre midfielders.

Some experts do predict a big win for Chelsea expecting a reaction from the team. The Chelsea team very well knows that we cannot afford to lose any more points. If just a 6-point gap has created so much furore, any more points dropped would draw more criticism and noise. Unfortunately, the noise is more from the ‘fans’ from ‘Stamford Grudge’ (just coined this word for the ever-grudging Chelsea ‘fans’).

We all know that Liverpool is a far far bigger club than Chelsea and has 18 titles and 5 times European champions. After the stunning 3-6 loss (worst ever in aout 70 years) at home, a liverpool fan says this in the kopblog:

We still have the Champions league and premiership. It’s not impossible, if we can come back from 3 down against that Milan side, Fucking hell we can do just about anything!

If we had lost 3-6 at the Bridge, how many Chelsea fans would say something like this? I wish the new Chelsea fans grow up soon!